Agile Contracts in Belfast

Agile Software Development
County Antrim > Belfast

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Belfast with a requirement for Agile skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Agile over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 9 14 4
Rank change year-on-year +5 -10 +1
Contract jobs citing Agile 13 10 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Belfast 10.57% 6.02% 18.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.44% 7.41% 22.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 6 22
10th Percentile £482 £356 £364
25th Percentile £519 £413 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £581 £450 £485
Median % change year-on-year +29.17% -7.22% +23.57%
75th Percentile £625 £478 £519
90th Percentile £688 £488 £573
County Antrim median daily rate £581 £450 £485
% change year-on-year +29.17% -7.22% +23.57%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Belfast

Agile is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Belfast with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 90 135 150
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Belfast 73.17% 81.33% 84.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 70 81
10th Percentile £210 £165 £145
25th Percentile £328 £253 £305
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £400 £438
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -8.57% +6.71%
75th Percentile £575 £511 £500
90th Percentile £663 £638 £550
County Antrim median daily rate £500 £400 £438
% change year-on-year +25.00% -8.57% +6.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 14 6
10th Percentile - £13.40 £10.06
25th Percentile £12.25 £13.91 £10.22
Median hourly rate £12.62 £15.25 £11.36
Median % change year-on-year -17.25% +34.24% -18.86%
75th Percentile £14.78 £16.78 £16.40
90th Percentile £19.19 £18.12 £20.93
County Antrim median hourly rate £14.19 £15.25 £15.74
% change year-on-year -6.98% -3.11% +21.08%

Agile
Job Vacancy Trend in Belfast

Job postings citing Agile as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Belfast.

Job vacancy trend for Agile in Belfast

Agile
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Belfast

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Agile in Belfast.

Daily rate trend for Agile in Belfast

Agile
Daily Rate Histogram in Belfast

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Agile in Belfast over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Agile in Belfast

Agile
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Belfast by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Adobe XD
1 2 (15.38%) InVision
1 2 (15.38%) Sketch
2 1 (7.69%) UserZoom
Cloud Services
1 7 (53.85%) Azure
2 6 (46.15%) AWS Lambda
2 6 (46.15%) Azure Functions
2 6 (46.15%) Power Platform
2 6 (46.15%) Serverless
3 3 (23.08%) AWS
3 3 (23.08%) GCP
4 2 (15.38%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 3 (23.08%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.69%) DB2
1 1 (7.69%) IDMS
1 1 (7.69%) Tableau
General
1 5 (38.46%) Finance
2 4 (30.77%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (30.77%) Social Skills
3 3 (23.08%) Banking
Job Titles
1 6 (46.15%) Lead
2 2 (15.38%) Designer
2 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure Manager
2 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure Project Manager
2 2 (15.38%) Lead Software Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Project Manager
2 2 (15.38%) Software Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) UX Designer
3 1 (7.69%) Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Architect
3 1 (7.69%) Azure Architect
3 1 (7.69%) Business Intelligence Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Business Intelligence Data Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Data Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Excel Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Mainframe Architect
3 1 (7.69%) Platform Specialist
3 1 (7.69%) Power Platform Specialist
3 1 (7.69%) Test Architect
3 1 (7.69%) User Experience Researcher
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.69%) Data Structures
1 1 (7.69%) Mainframe
1 1 (7.69%) VSAM
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (46.15%) Coaching
1 6 (46.15%) Mentoring
1 6 (46.15%) Technical Leadership
1 6 (46.15%) Validation
2 4 (30.77%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (23.08%) Co-Creation
3 3 (23.08%) E-Commerce
3 3 (23.08%) Risk Management
3 3 (23.08%) User Experience
3 3 (23.08%) UX Design
3 3 (23.08%) UX Research
3 3 (23.08%) Waterfall
4 2 (15.38%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
4 2 (15.38%) PRINCE2
4 2 (15.38%) Project Delivery
4 2 (15.38%) Project Management
4 2 (15.38%) Prototyping
4 2 (15.38%) Software Engineering
4 2 (15.38%) Task Automation
4 2 (15.38%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 1 (7.69%) COBOL
1 1 (7.69%) Python
1 1 (7.69%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (38.46%) Degree
2 3 (23.08%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) Accessibility
1 2 (15.38%) WCAG
Vendors
1 6 (46.15%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.69%) IBM
2 1 (7.69%) Qualtrics